Having finished my series about the Emerging Church, I feel that it is important that I say a few things so that people have a better understanding about my thoughts in...

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Would the Real Emerger Please Stand Up? – Part 5 – Are You Emerging?

Are you an emerger? Is the emerging church heretical? What should my attitude be toward this “movement”? These are the questions that started this series of blog posts and I...

Would the Real Emerger Please Stand Up – Part 4 – Comparing Fundamentalists, Evangelicals, and Emergers

OK, I lied. Here is another parenthetical post in my emerging series. The five ways in which one can emerge will be coming soon. However, in my defense, I did not know I was...

by C Michael Patton

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Would the Real Emerging Please Stand Up? Part 2 – What is Orthodoxy?

Before my next post on what it means to be emerging, I thought it necessary to reiterate some issues about orthodoxy. I mentioned some in the Emergent strand of emergers that...

“Historic Evangelicalism”: Characteristics of a New Christian Tradition

I am an Evangelical . . . a “Historic Evangelical.” Meaningless, I know. But let me respond to many of you by taking the next step in putting some flesh on this proposed new...

Postmodernism: How to disarm a suspicious culture

It is no secret that our culture today is undergoing a massive paradigm shift with regards to the way people come to know truth. The atmosphere of the intellectual landscape...

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Postmoderism and the Imago Dei

The tension is heating up; the rancor is getting louder. Evangelicals are fighting each other again—this time over postmodernism. There are some churches that have...

Top Ten (More) Signs You Might be Taking this Emerging Thing a Little TOO Far

Well, I am not just trying toÂ just pickÂ on the Emerging church (especially since I am always being accusedÂ of being a part of it!), but I wrote the originalÂ ten as twenty....

Top Ten Signs You Might be Taking this Emerging Thing a Little TOO Far

10. You only curse around fundamentalists. 9. You leave your church because the sermon was not obscure enough.

Theology Unplugged #65: An evaluation of Creeds, Unity, and the Emerging Church

Theology Unplugged Broadcast #63: An evaluation of Creeds Unity; Unity and the Emerging Church Â Question/Answers Segment: Creeds: What good are they and how do we evaluate...

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